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Building Physician Support
for Trauma Care

Best Practices in Community Hospitals
  • Greg Bishop, President
  • Bishop+ Associates


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Building Physician Support
for Trauma Care
Best Practices in Community Hospitals
  • Problems, Factors & Principles
  • Improving Trauma Medical Staff Value
  • Cost-Effective Trauma Physician Support
  • Arriving At Fair Trauma Physician Compensation
  • Specialty Issues & Market Norms
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Problems, Factors & Principles
  • Problematic Physician Structures
  • Multiple Contributing Factors
  • Principles For Proceeding
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Problematic Physician Structures
  • Fragile, Complex Structures
  • Serious Shortages, Few In Pipeline
  • Costs, Closures, Weak & Unstable Structures
  • Balkans of Hospital/Physician Relations
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16 Trauma Center Specialists
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Multiple Contributing Factors
  • Increasing Burden of Uninsured Patients
  • Incompatibility with Private Practice
  • Undesirable Lifestyle Due to Trauma Call;
  • Reductions in Resident Support
  • Outpatient Surgery/Specialty Hospital Trends
  • Increasing Physician Sub-Specialization
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Multiple Contributing Factors
  • Malpractice Market Turmoil
  • Physician Payment Penalizes Trauma
  • Managed Care Escapes Paying its Share
  • Demise of Community ED Call Panels
  • EMTALA Changes Encourage Dumping


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Principles For Proceeding
  • Value, Not Cost Is Key Issue
  • Strengthen Structure For Decades
  • Pursue Opportunities For Ideal Solutions
  • Leadership Is Essential
  • Patient Care Is A Core Physician Value
  • Impact On Hospital Physician Relations
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Improving Value In Trauma Care
Strengthening Trauma Program
  • Quality of Care; Responsiveness
  • Maintaining Verification Status
  • QA, CME, Protocols
  • Cost effectiveness; Reduced LOS
  • Community Outreach & Injury Prevention
  • Public Advocate for Optimal Trauma Care



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Improving Value In Trauma Care
Strengthening Hospital
  • Surgical Critical Care Program
  • Ortho & Neuro Centers of Excellence
  • Orthopedic Hospitalist Model
  • Hospital/Physician Relations
  • ED/OR/ICU Issues
  • Trauma Center Halo Effect



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Framework For Cost Effective Trauma Physician Support
  • Effective Structure
  • Hospital Support
  • Optimal Franchise
  • Trauma Physician Compensation
  • Dealing With Leverage




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Effective Structure
  • Strong Trauma Medical Leadership
  • Strong Trauma Service
  • Make Trauma Call Less Burdensome
    • Only Call in Specialty When Needed
    • Have Patient Ready When Specialist Arrives
    • Don’t Make Specialists Wait for Diagnostic Results
    • Implement Tiered Call System; Facial Fracture Panels

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Hospital Support
  • OR Block Time
  • ED Throughput
  • Physician Assistants
  • Nurse Practitioners
  • Other
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Optimize Franchise
  • Trauma/SICU/Surgery
  • Hospital Based Orthopedic Program
  • Establishment of Centers of Excellence
  • Halo Effect for both Physicians and Hospital
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Trauma Physician Compensation
  • Trauma Medical Director Compensation
  • Payment on Uninsured Patients
  • Call Stipends; In-house call versus on-call
  • Response Fees/Complex Schemes
  • Consolidated Trauma Physician Billing Support
  • Net Annual Hospital Cost (NAHC)
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Dealing With Leverage
  • Balkans Revisited
  • Stark Provides Constraint
  • Do Not Form A Cartel
  • Compliance Is A Serious Issue
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Arriving At Fair Compensation
  • Key Payment Factors
  • Employment vs. Contracting
  • Data and Market Norms
  • Process is Key
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Key Payment Factors
  • Lack of Residency
  • Volume of Uninsured
  • Role versus Value Provided
  • In-House Call versus On-Call
  • Trauma Volume +/-
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Employment vs. Contracting
  • Contract With Group For Service/Employment Of Trauma Specialist
  • Hospital Employment of Surgeons
  • Contract with Individual Surgeons
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Data & Market Norms
      • Data Sources
      • Comparison to Salary Data
      • Specialty Outliers
      • Payment on Uninsured
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Dealing With Leverage
  • Balkans Revisited
  • Stark Provides Constraint
  • Do Not Form A Cartel
  • Compliance Is A Serious Issue
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Process Is Key
      • Do Not Ignore Requests
      • Effective Hospital Leadership
      • Benchmark Trauma Financial Performance
      • Solicit Specialty Input
      • Address Non-Financial Issues
      • Define Fair Level of Compensation
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Specialty Issues & Market Norms
      • Trauma Surgery
      • Neurosurgery
      • Orthopedic Surgery
      • Plastic Surgery
      • Low Volume Specialties
      • Hospital Based Specialties
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Trauma Surgery
      • Key Issues:
        • Core of Trauma Center
        • Highest impact specialty
        • Frontline and patient care manager roles
        • Franchise Value
      • Market Norms
        • Most Trauma Surgeons within Community Hospitals Receive Hospital Support
        • In-House Call cost per day
        • On-Call cost per day
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Neurosurgery
      • Key Issues:
        • High impact specialty due to shortage
        • Quick response time to surgery required
        • Relatively small professional fee franchise
        • Relatively poor payer mix
      • Market Norms
        • About 40% of Neurosurgeons In Community Hospitals Receive Support
        • On-Call cost per day
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Orthopedic Surgery
      • Key Issues:
        • High volume trauma specialty
        • Sub-specialization making surgeons uncomfortable with trauma
        • Need To Reduce Number of Surgeons Taking Trauma Call
        •  Large professional fee franchise
      • Market Norms
        • 30% Orthopedic Surgeons In Community Hospitals Receive Hospital Support
        • On-Call cost per day
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Plastic Surgery
      • Key Issues:
        • Small volume specialty; ED call issues
        • Call structure is critical for this specialty
        • Declining number of surgeons taking call
        • High paying, busy private practices (Cosmetic Surgery)
      • Market Norms
        • 10-15% Plastic Surgeons In Community Hospitals Receive Hospital Support
        • On-Call cost per day


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Low Volume Specialists
      • Key Issues:
        • Focus on Trauma Service making their life easier
        • Can be most difficult issue
        • Combined with ED call issues
      • Market Norms
        • Few are Compensated in Community Hospital Setting
        • No Real Market Norms
        • Payment on Uninsured Patients
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Hospital Based Specialists

      • Trauma is Part of Their Hospital Franchise
      • Few Payment Examples
      • In house Anesthesia is exception
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Trauma Center Of The Future

      • The emerging Hospitalist Model
      • Carved out Trauma Physician Billing
      • Trauma Specific CPT Codes and RVU’s
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